Monthly Archives: March 2006

  Sorry for the gap between posts.  It’s week six of a thirteen week semester so things are starting to hot up around here.   But here we go.  And there will be no beating around the bush today.  Straight … Continue reading →

  Where is the G?   It’s still right there, except now it’s a g.   What does that mean?  If you’ve been reading my blog from day one and have a good memory you’ll already know the answer.  For … Continue reading →

A few people have asked if I am OK with the nasty weather we’ve been having recently.  I must answer that question with a question.  How big is Australia?  I don’t want this to be another geography lesson, but even I … Continue reading →

  Here is the word-picture to go with the picture-picture.  My daughter is the blonde darling carrying her own bag which is almost bigger than she is.  The lady walking in front of her is carrying 2 bags over her … Continue reading →

  News Flash   An update from the Commonwealth games.  My previous post covered the first day of track cycling competition with 2 Gold for Australia from 3 events.  Yesterday there were another 3 events decided and we took all … Continue reading →

   Today is the beginning of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.  The mini-Olympics of the British Empire, if you will.   And for weeks now our local media has been puffing and panting and talking clean sweep for our swimmers … Continue reading →

  That makes it revolution update time.   17 points was the statistical outcome of last week.  Reasonable but not perfect.  And the scales told me so.  My first gain since Christmas at +0.5kg (1.1lb).  After the scales bit me on … Continue reading →

  You must wait another 8 hours for this because I’m a tease.   UPDATED… the wait is over.     Some days you just wish you’d stayed in bed.  I thought about that yesterday as I lay bleeding.  But … Continue reading →

’tis revolution time again.   And a grim time was had last week.  There were 3 consecutive days of rain (3-4 inches each day plus wind averaging 20mph with gusts over 40mph.)  I managed to ride the first day but I … Continue reading →

This is an event in my life that, at the time, was just an embarrassing blip on the radar that I promptly put in the history basket and forgot about.  It was about a decade later that some of the … Continue reading →